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by aidenn0
2892 days ago
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To a certain extent it's just syntax sugar. It's relatively easy to implement a lisp-1 with a macro in a lisp-2 and vice versa. At this point I'm so used to lisp-2 that I make all sorts of silly mistakes when I program in a lisp-1. In English, a word could be a noun or a verb depending on its position in a sentence, so there is a parallel there. Whether or not it's a good thing is a matter of taste. The only clearly objective difference is that lisp-1 is simpler, which is probably why most lisps created in the past 30 or so years are lisp-1s. |
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